TY - BOOK ID - 17194115 TI - Sacred words and worlds : geography, religion, and scholarship, 1550-1700 PY - 2012 VL - 21 2 SN - 18720684 SN - 9789004209350 9004209352 9786613310620 1283310627 9004209387 9789004209381 PB - Leiden ; Boston : Brill, DB - UniCat KW - Religion and geography KW - Sacred space KW - Religion and geography. KW - History of Europe KW - Geography KW - Christian church history KW - anno 1500-1799 KW - Sacred space. KW - Bible KW - Study and teaching KW - History. KW - Holy places KW - Places, Sacred KW - Sacred places KW - Sacred sites KW - Sacred spaces KW - Sites, Sacred KW - Space, Sacred KW - Holy, The KW - Geography and religion UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:17194115 AB - In early modern Europe, fundamental geographical as well as religious certainties became unstable. At the intersection of the two stood sacred geography. This book examines the scope and content of this early modern scholarly genre, which engaged many of Europe’s leading scholars. On the one hand, 'geographia sacra' is analyzed in the context of antiquarian scholarship. Equipped with newly-developed sophisticated tools, scholars compiled, measured, and meticulously documented biblical and ecclesiastical space. On the other hand, this study argues, 'geographia sacra' was never detached from present concerns, and took part in confessional debates over scriptural authority, papal legitimacy, and the authenticity of liturgy. Hence today’s interest in the notions of ‘sacred space’ and spatiality had a lively, controversial, and crucial precedent in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Scientific and Learned Cultures and Their Institutions , 2 ER -